Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison films and blaxploitation films, starring in B-movies such as 1974's Foxy Brown, and in mainstream films such as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, Jackie Brown. (more)
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Foxy Brown (film):
Foxy Brown is a 1974 blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character, described by one character as "a whole lot of woman" who showcases unrelenting sexiness while battling the villains.
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B movie:
The term B movie originally referred to a motion picture made on a low or modest budget and intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. Although the U.S. production o
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Jackie Brown (film):
Jackie Brown is a 1997 motion picture written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda and Michael Keaton. This movie follows Tarantino's success directing Reservoir
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Quentin Tarantino:
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and styliz
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Blaxploitation:
Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban black audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” Blaxploitatio
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Women in prison film:
Women in prison film is a subgenre of exploitation film. Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse, typically by sadistic female prison wardens. The genre also features many films in which imprisoned women
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Escape from L.A.:
Escape From L.A. (also known as John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.) is a 1996 cult film directed by John Carpenter. The sequel to the action film Escape from New York, the film follows war hero Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell. It co-stars Steve
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Coffy:
Coffy is a 1973 blaxploitation film by American filmmaker Jack Hill.The story is about a black female vigilante, played by Pam Grier. According to writer/director Hill, the project began when American International Pictures' head of production, Larry
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Greased Lightning:
Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock ca
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Original Gangstas:
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action movie set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree. The film details the deteriorating state of an impoverished Gary neighborhood
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The Allnighter (film):
The Allnighter is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs, released on May 1, 1987. The movie stars Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack and Pam Grier.
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The Arena (1974 film):
The Arena is a 1974 gladiator B-movie, starring Margaret Markov and Pam Grier, and directed by Steve Carver and an uncredited Joe D'Amato. Pam Grier and Margaret Markove portray female gladiators in ancient Rome, who have been enslaved and must fight
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Black Mama, White Mama:
Black Mama, White Mama is a 1972 blaxploitation film, starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, and directed by Eddie Romero.
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The Big Doll House:
The Big Doll House is a 1971 women in prison film starring Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Brooke Mills, and Pat Woodell. The film follows six female inmates throughout daily life in a gritty, unidentified supra-tropical prison. A sequel to t
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Sheba, Baby:
The action movie Sheba, Baby, starring Pam Grier as Sheba Shayne, was released in 1975. In the film, Sheba returns to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father into dissolving or handing over his f
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Bones (film):
Bones is a 2001 horror movie about a gangster that comes back from the dead to avenge his murder. The film stars Snoop Dogg as the title character Jimmy Bones. The film is also a tribute to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Pam Grier is seen in
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Posse (1993 film):
Posse is a 1993 Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles. The story centers around a group of ragtag but mostly black infantrymen returning from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader
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Fort Apache, The Bronx:
Fort Apache, The Bronx is a 1981 crime drama film made by Producers Circle, Time-Life Television Productions Inc., and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Martin Richards, Thomas Fio
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The Package (film):
The Package was a 1989 Orion Pictures film directed by Andrew Davis. Set during the Cold War, this political thriller portrays an assassination conspiracy within both the U.S. and Soviet militaries. The Americans and Soviets are about to sign a disar
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The Big Bird Cage:
The Big Bird Cage is a 1972 exploitation film of the "women in prison" subgenre. It serves as a follow-up to the 1971 film The Big Doll House. The film was written and directed by Jack Hill, and stars Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Anitra Ford, and Carol Speed
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Women in Cages:
Women in Cages is a 1971 film of the sexploitation sub-genre, co-produced by Roger Corman and directed by Gerardo de León. It starred Pam Grier, Jennifer Gan and Roberta Collins. It was prominently featured in the Planet Terror portion of the 2007 fi
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Kit Porter:
Kate 'Kit' Porter is a fictional character on the Showtime television series, The L Word. She is played by Pam Grier. Kit is the half-sister of Bette Porter. Kit is a musician and became owner of The Planet, a local cafè and nightclub after the sudde
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